feedle@lahackers.org from Los Angeles, CA , July 23,
1998 [1 out of 5 stars]
Neither Happy, Nor Hacking.
Somewhere in this collection of Windows 95 tricks and
re-digesting of commonly available information regarding
certain Internet protocols, there's a good hacker book
waiting to come out. The problem is, between all the
mis-information and grammatical errors (of which there's
plenty), you get the feeling that "The Happy Hacker"
isn't so much a guide to becoming a white hat hacker as
it is somebody's way of making a quick buck off the
hacker hysteria. Do yourself a favor: spend the money on
any one of the books published by "O'Reilly and
Associates" on things like security, running and using
Linux, or various protocols and programs that make up
the Internet. Or, spend the money renting WarGames. At
least then you'll know how 70's hackers got free local
phone calls from payphones.